Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Months ago a group of British and U. S. correspondents waited day after day in a draughty courtyard in the Rue de Crenelle playing cards, drinking beer, arguing, squabbling, waiting for Marshal Foch to die. Last week the identical men were waiting in another courtyard, across the Seine in the Rue Franklin beneath the window of Georges Clémenceau...
...Fiche moi le camp! Go to hell!" he shouted from his bedroom. "I want to die in peace and I will do all I can to fool you. You shall not learn of my death until 24 hours after I have been shut in my coffin. And now go to hell again...
...will of Georges Clémenceau. The man who carried France through the dark winter of 1917 by the sheer force of his personal hatred of Germany, whose wool-gloved fists so impressed all observers of the Versailles Peace Conference, does not give up easily. He was ready to die this year, but not while there was work to be done. He had to write the history of his War years, the written reply to such critics as the late Marshal Foch. He had no time to die...
When the vote was finally taken docile peasants rolled up an overwhelming total of 455 ballots out of 486 for Rooster Saratzeanu. Only nine representatives voted for Prince Carol. The remaining 22 ballots went to a popular Army corps commander, General Presan. The 39 members of the Liberal party, die-hard partisans of Queen Marie, abstained from voting entirely, announced themselves "scandalized" at the Peasant Prime Minister's last minute whip-cracking for a nonentity. Reporters and photographers found him totally ignorant of what had been passing in Parliament, astounded by the news...
...quickly changed to gentlemanly chagrin when she leaves him after their first night. Denouement: the Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...